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Adobe DPS has leveraged Apple Newsstand background downloads to allow publishers to send issues to their readers while they sleep. Enterprise publishers who use DPS often can’t use Newsstand because they either publish private apps using Apple’s iOS Developer Enterprise Program or they don’t produce content that Apple will approve for Newsstand. In iOS 8, however, Apple opened background downloads to apps outside of the Newsstand. As a result, Enterprise DPS customers can now push content to their readers, so long as the readers are using iOS8.

Many of my Enterprise customers have asked for a way to bring PowerPoint content to DPS. While InDesign provides a robust design platform for creating interactive DPS experiences, InDesign isn’t always readily accessible to a salesperson or sales management who need to deploy presentations to their tablet-enabled sales force. In addition, they often have many years of approved presentation content in PowerPoint that is readily available. In order to use that content in DPS, a design team would usually rebuild the content in InDesign or perhaps use a third party tool to export the presentation to HTML and then import it to DPS. With the release of R32.1 of Adobe DPS, Enterprise DPS customers can now export their PowerPoint presentations directly to their DPS accounts using a new PowerPoint add-in. Learn more at the DPS Export Add-in Help Page.

The add-in is available for Windows 7 and higher customers who use PowerPoint 2010 or 2013 in 32bit mode. There is no Macintosh version, as PowerPoint for Mac does not have a add-in architecture similar to Windows. You can download a localized version of the add-in from here.

The add-in supports most animations and even video. The add-in installs the desktop Content Viewer, too, so you don’t need InDesign to proof your presentation before publishing it to the Folio Producer. The ease with which a business user can convert their presentations to DPS is shocking, and I believe that customers will be delighted with the results.

I will be tag-teaming a session at Adobe MAX with my good friend David Schmidt. He and I will talk about how to integrate Adobe DPS applications with CRM systems such as salesforce.com. If you’ve been wondering how to take your sales enablement app to the next level, then this is definitely a session you won’t want to miss.

Learn how combining Digital Publishing Suite with CRM systems like Salesforce.com can enable breakthrough business results for your organization. See how Adobe equips its own sales team with a DPS-based sales enablement tool that allows rich presentations from tablets, access to centralized sales collateral, and powerful collection and analysis of sales metrics.

In this session, we will cover:

DPS features and APIs that provide flexible integration options with CRM systems

Leveraging DPS built-in analytics so that marketing and communication teams can optimize content and collateral, and easily push updates out to global sales and field personnel

Many of my customers ask how to see a dashboard that shows the status of the DPS services. You can find it at status.adobedps.com In addition to the nice dashboard like the one at the right of this text, there is also a blog that discusses upcoming maintenance and emergent issues. I encourage everyone to visit the DPS Status site from time to time just for the blog. You may be unaware of the constant innovation that happens within the DPS services, and the blog is a great place to get a glimpse into what’s happening.

Now, what if you’re wanting to know about issues before you get frustrated because something is slow or not working? Easy! Sign up for our email notification service!

Sign up for Email Notifications

Yes, that’s right! You can get an email whenever something goes sproing! in the DPS service. If you manage a team of designers, encourage them all to subscribe so that they don’t bug you in the middle of the night with DPS service questions. It won’t help you if your designer’s close the “Interactive Overlays” panel and can’t find it anymore, but it will let them know if there’s something going on with DPS so they can let you sleep.